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Connecting LGBTQ+ communities through housing
Tonic Housing opened the first LGBTQ+ retirement community in the UK in 2021. Tony Watts OBE asks Bob Green, their Head of Operations, how housing can bring the generations together.
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How can the retirement housing sector achieve its full potential? By adding life to our years.
If the specialist later life housing sector is to play its full part in housing our ageing society, argues Tony Watts OBE, more developers need to focus more on how we age healthily.
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Opening new doors by sharing your home
For those who prefer to remain in their own homes but would welcome company and occasional assistance, sharing one’s home might provide a very workable solution. By Tony Watts OBE.
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Does the housing sector really listen to the voice of older people? And why does it matter?
Tony Watts OBE lead a discussion recently at a Housing LIN’s South West Leadership Set awayday on how to magnify the voices of older people. This is a precis.
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Meet Peggy: the AI concierge working for staff and residents in a later-living community
Vicky Carne, Founder of 3A-AI Ltd, on how a new voice-enabled AI chatbot can keep residents safe and independent.
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How a BBC Documentary sparked a Sign Language Movement in a retirement village
What started as a six-week experiment has become a heart-warming legacy of transformation at ExtraCare Trust’s Hughenden Gardens Retirement Village in High Wycombe. By Charlotte Millions.
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Extra care housing: can design help improve the health and wellbeing of older people?
Josie Dorling, an architect with Poynton Bradbury Architects, looks at how accommodation that is thoughtfully designed to promote social interaction among residents can help to combat loneliness and isolation.
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Why are we waiting?
Procrastination isn’t just the thief of time. It can also be a thief of lives… as well as public money, writes Tony Watts OBE
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Inclusive Design isn’t a luxury. It’s a lifeline
Nearly 50% of social housing households include someone with a long-term health condition. And yet home adaptations are still seen as an afterthought writes Laura Wood Director of Invisible Creations.
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How can we maximise the “wellbeing potential” of retirement living?
Tony Watts OBE recently gave a presentation at LaingBuisson’s Social Care Summit on why later life housing developers need to “futureproof” their schemes by “maximising their wellbeing potential”. Here is an adapted version of that presentation. A common theme in any discussion on retirement housing in the UK is why retirement developments here have not…
